Re: KEYWORDS -* and masked packages On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:45:33 -0500, Peter wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:39:33 +0100, Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>
>> Wim Cossement enlightened us with:
>>> But the easiest way to compile a masked package is:
>>>
>>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge packagename
>>
>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DON'T use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" for it'll
>> emerge dependencies with ~x86 which may not be wanted.
>>
> I agree. However, back to the point, how do I properly use the -* keyword
> to emerge packages.
The way I did it was to move the ebuild to /usr/local/portage... and
change the keyword to ~x86 (for me) and then to add it to
package.keywords. Was there a better way? What's the meaning of -* (don't
touch at all?) |